FFA Official Horror Movie Thread Catching up on Shudder and Various Streaming Platforms (5 Viewers)

[Osaurus]

Your Host - it’s like someone asked AI to write a horror film that was a cross between Saw and Squid Games, but then the producer realized how terrible it was and crumpled up the script and threw it in the trash, yet somehow it gets found and made anyway. Starring Jackie Earl Hayley

And yes I let my wife pick and surprise! It was a TikTok recommendation

Between your write up and the trailer, hard pass for me. Thanks.

 

[Keith R]

What should I watch next? Haven't seen any of these and I'm running out of good stuff to watch.

Smile 1/2
Black Phone
Best Wishes to All
Under the Skin

Some of these have come up recently so I added them, not sure if any of these really stand out or not.

I will carefully consider all recommendations before deciding on which awful found footage movie to watch tonight.

I'd rate them Under the Skin, Black Phone, Smile, Smile 2 ( haven't seen Best Wishes). Under the Skin is pretty unconventional and polarizing, so Black Phone is the safer play. The 1970s setting adds a lot to the story

 

[KarmaPolice]

What should I watch next? Haven't seen any of these and I'm running out of good stuff to watch.

Smile 1/2
Black Phone
Best Wishes to All
Under the Skin

Some of these have come up recently so I added them, not sure if any of these really stand out or not.

I will carefully consider all recommendations before deciding on which awful found footage movie to watch tonight.

I'd rate them Under the Skin, Black Phone, Smile, Smile 2 ( haven't seen Best Wishes). Under the Skin is pretty unconventional and polarizing, so Black Phone is the safer play. The 1970s setting adds a lot to the story

Lol - in other words, watch all 5 Scoresman - you will probably get 4 different answers as the rest of us post. None that I have seen on the list were bad, so you can't go wrong with any of the first 4. I still haven't gotten to Under the Skin - it was one I wanted to watch before our 21st century list, but didn't get to.

 

[KarmaPolice]

As for the actual movie of Stage Fright ('87), I liked it a lot and embraced the wildness. As I thought about it in context of what else was around in 1987 and I would give it around an 8/10 rating. It had an interesting and unique environment for the movie, and I tend to like the "one location" type of movies. Kills and characters were good, and most importantly it showed that you can make a slasher movie that actually looks good. Some of the shots like the stage scene at the end looked great and were well shot. My favorites of the month have been a couple of the newer foreign ones, but right behind are Stage Fright, Deer Camp, and I Madman. I guess I like a good slasher and would easily watch any of them over the Saw movies or the pre-70s ones I watched.

That put me at 33 for the month. I didn't get to one last night, and instead watched a different type of horror: Seattle @ Toronto.

 

[foxco]

What should I watch next? Haven't seen any of these and I'm running out of good stuff to watch.

Smile 1/2
Black Phone
Best Wishes to All
Under the Skin

Some of these have come up recently so I added them, not sure if any of these really stand out or not.

I will carefully consider all recommendations before deciding on which awful found footage movie to watch tonight.

I enjoy both Smile movies, Black Phone was decent enough, Under the Skin is more unnerving and odd than horror, but I'm glad I watched it once. Haven't gotten to BWTA yet.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I've recommended the Horror episodes of The Pure Cinema Podcast for some deep cut ideas. They filter their ideas through a movie marathon idea, since it's a podcast for the New Beverly theater, and they have events like that at the theater. Usually it's more wide open, but this year they had categories. I was thinking of my own ideas that I think would be fun for an event like that or a marathon at home, and was wondering what others here would come up with (if this interests you). These episodes have been the reason why I've tried flicks like I Madman, Hell Night, Messiah of Evil, and others. They tend to go with deep cuts that I can't even find on disc, so that is frustrating. I was trying to come up with stuff that I at least saw streaming somewhere.

Categories:

1 - Dimension Horror (the film company)
2 - Pre-70s
3 - Horror comedy
4 - Slasher/giallo
5 - DIY/Regional horror
6 - Wildcard

I was trying my best with these, but I didn't have much luck with a couple categories and available for streaming. I'm not good with pre-70s and DIY/Regional gave me fits, but I did see a few deeper cuts when looking through for ideas:

Dimension: Nightwatch ('97) is a remake of a movie I still haven't seen the original for. I have only seen it the once, but it stuck out to me and I did suggest it to people at the stores. It has Nolte, McGregor, Arquette, and Brolin. TRAILER It looks like it's on Kanopy. The Mist or a Halloween movie would be a fun option too.

Horror Comedy: I was excited to see Dead Snow ('09) pop up on AMC+ and will probably watch that one again, and that would have been my pick here too. I also wrote down Grabbers and Slither as options. Trailer

Slasher/giallo: Especially in the context of a group/marathon type setting at night, I think Hatchet ('06) would be a blast. Fun seeing Tony Todd and Robert Englund in this, and Kane Hodder is the bad guy. Trailer

Wildcard: The Loved Ones is on Prime and stood out here. Again, only seen it the once, but it has stuck with me since. It's a bit demented and gory, but it's also well done with some good emotion and acting. Think table/dinner scene from TCM... I thought it would be a good capper to end the night and send people home to. I think I will watch this one this week to refresh my memory. Trailer I also considered Teeth.

 

[jamny]

Really enjoyed Bring Her Back.

 

[jamny]

Weapons comes to HBO on Friday.

 

[Scoresman]

I've recommended the Horror episodes of The Pure Cinema Podcast for some deep cut ideas. They filter their ideas through a movie marathon idea, since it's a podcast for the New Beverly theater, and they have events like that at the theater. Usually it's more wide open, but this year they had categories. I was thinking of my own ideas that I think would be fun for an event like that or a marathon at home, and was wondering what others here would come up with (if this interests you). These episodes have been the reason why I've tried flicks like I Madman, Hell Night, Messiah of Evil, and others. They tend to go with deep cuts that I can't even find on disc, so that is frustrating. I was trying to come up with stuff that I at least saw streaming somewhere.

Categories:

1 - Dimension Horror (the film company)
2 - Pre-70s
3 - Horror comedy
4 - Slasher/giallo
5 - DIY/Regional horror
6 - Wildcard

I was trying my best with these, but I didn't have much luck with a couple categories and available for streaming. I'm not good with pre-70s and DIY/Regional gave me fits, but I did see a few deeper cuts when looking through for ideas:

Dimension: Nightwatch ('97) is a remake of a movie I still haven't seen the original for. I have only seen it the once, but it stuck out to me and I did suggest it to people at the stores. It has Nolte, McGregor, Arquette, and Brolin. TRAILER It looks like it's on Kanopy. The Mist or a Halloween movie would be a fun option too.

Horror Comedy: I was excited to see Dead Snow ('09) pop up on AMC+ and will probably watch that one again, and that would have been my pick here too. I also wrote down Grabbers and Slither as options. Trailer

Slasher/giallo: Especially in the context of a group/marathon type setting at night, I think Hatchet ('06) would be a blast. Fun seeing Tony Todd and Robert Englund in this, and Kane Hodder is the bad guy. Trailer

Wildcard: The Loved Ones is on Prime and stood out here. Again, only seen it the once, but it has stuck with me since. It's a bit demented and gory, but it's also well done with some good emotion and acting. Think table/dinner scene from TCM... I thought it would be a good capper to end the night and send people home to. I think I will watch this one this week to refresh my memory. Trailer I also considered Teeth.

First stab at this

Dimension: Yeah I pick The Mist here. Not many stories would have the balls to end it that way and this movie will forever be memorable because of it.

Pre-70s: Rosemary's Baby. No brainer for me. Great film. The old monster movies don't really click for me.

Horror Comedy: Young Frankenstein. I'm not a big horror comedy guy. I feel like I'm either in the mood to be scared or to laugh, but not both. That said, YF is a classic.

Slasher/Giallo - Gonna go with Pieces here. So many incredible moments in this one. An incredible watch with a group.

DIY/Regional - This is my wheelhouse right? Low budget found footage seems to qualify as DIY, right? If so, recommending Leaving D.C. Ultra low budget movie about a guy who buys a house in the country and starts capturing evidence of ghosts. Really creepy vibes throughout.

Wild Card - I want to send people home disturbed. So this is a toss up between Martyrs, High Tension, and Baskin.

 

[foxco]

Giving this a try, a couple had to go back to my DVD collection for:

1 - Dimension Horror - In the Mouth of Madness (flawed but fun Carpenter)

2 - Pre-70s - Cat People ('42) (love the tone)

3 - Horror comedy - Cabin in the Woods (one of my faves)

4 - Slasher/giallo - The Funhouse (creeped me out as a kid)

5 - DIY/Regional horror - Session 9 (location based horror where the location is the absolute star, plus David Caruso playing a jerkface is chef's kiss)

6 - Wildcard - The Empty Man (might be turning into one of my favorite recent horrors. Kitchen sink type horror with some major tonal/plot shifts but really effective for me at least)

 

[dickey moe]

I'm 30 minutes into The Substance (Max) and it's Skinemax so far. Neat setup and so much more nudity than I expected.

Much of it is prosthetics.

 

[Ilov80s]

I have been loving the options on Prime. Just real fun slightly left field options but nothing too hardcore.

Tourist Trap a total Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets House of Wax 1979 slasher. When the car a bunch of teens are travelig in breaks down near a rundown wax museum, they learn 2 things: 1) the dolls inside seem to have a mind of their own and 2) that is the least of their worries.

The Last House on Sorority Row this early 80s slasher gives us a standard set-up. A group of sorority girls accidentally kill their mean house mom. And then a masked killer shows up to take revenge on the girls.

Stage Fright is the 87 or 89 slasher @KarmaPolice mentioned earlier. I was watching this on his rec and it fit with a little mini theme I have going where there is a movie or book and from that a real killer emerges. This is a fully dubbed Italian production. It looks like it was done like how they made spaghetti westerns. International cast with everyone speaking their native language and everything getting dubbed for whatever market it enters. So while that part of it is a little clumsy, the lighting and film making is technically strong.

Overall, slasher is maybe a tier or 2 down for me on what kind of horror I watch the most of but these maybe started to change my mind and help convince there are some worth watching. I would not mark any of these down as must watches but I wouldn't steer anyone away either. If you like 70s and 80s slashers, this is a nice line-up.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I was probably overthinking it since I wasn't sure about a silent movie in that format, but Haxan was what came to mind for the pre-70s. That was one of the really old movies that actually had some genuine WTF moments for me and creeped me out. Not sure how many have seen that one since it's so old, either. I also liked Carnival of Souls when I watched that a couple years ago as well. Trailer

My DIY/Regional is truly a piece of crap, but I laughed when I saw it on streaming recently. Killer Nerd was a rare movie at our local video store in HS that had a "must be 18 to rent" sticker. We thought it was going to be this super scary, gory, awesome horror movie so when one of us turned 18 we rented it and it was a terrible low budget (I think Troma) movie. I ended up buying it and the sequel, Bride of Killer Nerd, when I went to college and it was a movie I made everybody watch as well. "blood red with brains!!" Scene preview Since it was on a few lists that I saw today, if people were paying for this I would feel bad and probably do Messiah of Evil instead. Looks like that one is on Kanopy and MGM+

 

[KarmaPolice]

I have been loving the options on Prime. Just real fun slightly left field options but nothing too hardcore.

Tourist Trap a total Texas Chainsaw Massacre meets House of Wax 1979 slasher. When the car a bunch of teens are travelig in breaks down near a rundown wax museum, they learn 2 things: 1) the dolls inside seem to have a mind of their own and 2) that is the least of their worries.

The Last House on Sorority Row this early 80s slasher gives us a standard set-up. A group of sorority girls accidentally kill their mean house mom. And then a masked killer shows up to take revenge on the girls.

Stage Fright is the 87 or 89 slasher @KarmaPolice mentioned earlier. I was watching this on his rec and it fit with a little mini theme I have going where there is a movie or book and from that a real killer emerges. This is a fully dubbed Italian production. It looks like it was done like how they made spaghetti westerns. International cast with everyone speaking their native language and everything getting dubbed for whatever market it enters. So while that part of it is a little clumsy, the lighting and film making is technically strong.

Overall, slasher is maybe a tier or 2 down for me on what kind of horror I watch the most of but these maybe started to change my mind and help convince there are some worth watching. I would not mark any of these down as must watches but I wouldn't steer anyone away either. If you like 70s and 80s slashers, this is a nice line-up.

I haven't seen Tourist Trap, I should add that to my huge queue.

I love the idea of a Hell House/House on Sorority Row double feature and/or a I, Madman/Stage Fright double feature. For the second one, I like the book coming to life + people doing a musical about a killer getting killed quasi-theme.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I've recommended the Horror episodes of The Pure Cinema Podcast for some deep cut ideas. They filter their ideas through a movie marathon idea, since it's a podcast for the New Beverly theater, and they have events like that at the theater. Usually it's more wide open, but this year they had categories. I was thinking of my own ideas that I think would be fun for an event like that or a marathon at home, and was wondering what others here would come up with (if this interests you). These episodes have been the reason why I've tried flicks like I Madman, Hell Night, Messiah of Evil, and others. They tend to go with deep cuts that I can't even find on disc, so that is frustrating. I was trying to come up with stuff that I at least saw streaming somewhere.

Categories:

1 - Dimension Horror (the film company)
2 - Pre-70s
3 - Horror comedy
4 - Slasher/giallo
5 - DIY/Regional horror
6 - Wildcard

I was trying my best with these, but I didn't have much luck with a couple categories and available for streaming. I'm not good with pre-70s and DIY/Regional gave me fits, but I did see a few deeper cuts when looking through for ideas:

Dimension: Nightwatch ('97) is a remake of a movie I still haven't seen the original for. I have only seen it the once, but it stuck out to me and I did suggest it to people at the stores. It has Nolte, McGregor, Arquette, and Brolin. TRAILER It looks like it's on Kanopy. The Mist or a Halloween movie would be a fun option too.

Horror Comedy: I was excited to see Dead Snow ('09) pop up on AMC+ and will probably watch that one again, and that would have been my pick here too. I also wrote down Grabbers and Slither as options. Trailer

Slasher/giallo: Especially in the context of a group/marathon type setting at night, I think Hatchet ('06) would be a blast. Fun seeing Tony Todd and Robert Englund in this, and Kane Hodder is the bad guy. Trailer

Wildcard: The Loved Ones is on Prime and stood out here. Again, only seen it the once, but it has stuck with me since. It's a bit demented and gory, but it's also well done with some good emotion and acting. Think table/dinner scene from TCM... I thought it would be a good capper to end the night and send people home to. I think I will watch this one this week to refresh my memory. Trailer I also considered Teeth.

First stab at this

Dimension: Yeah I pick The Mist here. Not many stories would have the balls to end it that way and this movie will forever be memorable because of it.

Pre-70s: Rosemary's Baby. No brainer for me. Great film. The old monster movies don't really click for me.

Horror Comedy: Young Frankenstein. I'm not a big horror comedy guy. I feel like I'm either in the mood to be scared or to laugh, but not both. That said, YF is a classic.

Slasher/Giallo - Gonna go with Pieces here. So many incredible moments in this one. An incredible watch with a group.

DIY/Regional - This is my wheelhouse right? Low budget found footage seems to qualify as DIY, right? If so, recommending Leaving D.C. Ultra low budget movie about a guy who buys a house in the country and starts capturing evidence of ghosts. Really creepy vibes throughout.

Wild Card - I want to send people home disturbed. So this is a toss up between Martyrs, High Tension, and Baskin.

Great list here despite one not being a horror movie. Love the Mist/Rosemary opening combo and that we both seemed to have the impulse to leave people a bit disturbed. I still haven't seen Baskin and I THINK have seen Pieces, but not 100%. I will have to look into those.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Giving this a try, a couple had to go back to my DVD collection for:

1 - Dimension Horror - In the Mouth of Madness (flawed but fun Carpenter)

2 - Pre-70s - Cat People ('42) (love the tone)

3 - Horror comedy - Cabin in the Woods (one of my faves)

4 - Slasher/giallo - The Funhouse (creeped me out as a kid)

5 - DIY/Regional horror - Session 9 (location based horror where the location is the absolute star, plus David Caruso playing a jerkface is chef's kiss)

6 - Wildcard - The Empty Man (might be turning into one of my favorite recent horrors. Kitchen sink type horror with some major tonal/plot shifts but really effective for me at least)

Great lineup here, too. Love the calls on Session 9 and The Funhouse. I suggested Session 9 to a lot of people at the stores as well. Haven't seen The Empty Man, so need to look into that.

 

[Tick]

Spoiler: Bring Her Back spoiler question

At the end of the movie, Laura tears at her arm, then gets in the pool with her daughter's corpse. Does she bleed out there or get arrested? I assumed she died but the Wiki summary implies she was arrested.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I haven't been to one of those, but they keep bringing up that they seem to always have a classic/pre-70s movie at those because that's often people's blind spots. I might have posted them in the past but they have done them in other years with different themes. Last year's was:

Animals
Slasher
Classic
Thriller
Italian
Wild

I like that better for my personal tastes, and probably would have an easier time getting a flowing list together for that one.

They did one during COVID that was shorter lists, but they had more participants call in, so there were 5-6 doing suggestions. That one was:

Sequel
Classic
Favorite
Bonkers

 

[Godsbrother]

I caught Dracula AD 1972 on TCM this afternoon. I hadn’t seen this since I was a kid so I forgot how bad it was.

I love Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee but this was a real stinker. Apparently the folks at Hammer thought they needed a hip update to the Dracula story line. It didn’t work.

1.5/5

 

[Osaurus]

I caught Dracula AD 1972 on TCM this afternoon. I hadn’t seen this since I was a kid so I forgot how bad it was.

I love Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee but this was a real stinker. Apparently the folks at Hammer thought they needed a hip update to the Dracula story line. It didn’t work.

1.5/5

Caught part of it myself. It’s real bad.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I'm having too much fun with this. I might turn it into a 365 in '26.

 

[kcahnabru]

Oddity ...one of my favorites from last year.